Do you think you have a challenge? What are the conditions for the challenge?

What is the best way to learn and make progress? -Act now

"My fantasy is worthless, my plan is like dust, and my goal is impossible to achieve.

Everything is meaningless-unless I take action at once. "

-Og Mandino, the greatest salesman in the world.

"Learning is like a soldier ready to charge on the battlefield. As long as you give the order, no matter whether it is water or fire ahead, you must rush forward without hesitation. "

—— Cao Xinglong, School of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University

First, we have no tomorrow.

"Tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, how many tomorrow. I will live tomorrow and everything will be fine. "

Everything must be done tomorrow, so the result must be nothing. Once the goal is set, it must be put into practice immediately. No matter how beautiful the goal is, no matter how easy it is to achieve, it will never become a reality if you don't work hard from now on.

Many people have many great ideas when they are young, but few people really make these great ideas come true. There is a simple reason. They didn't act immediately. They have been waiting for the day when conditions are ripe or "free". That day never happened.

Don't wait until you feel foolproof, then you are doomed to accomplish nothing.

Don't wait until you think you have enough time, or you are doomed to accomplish nothing.

Without conditions, we must create conditions; There is no time. Make time. In short, once the goal is determined, act immediately without delay. Action may not be successful, but it is absolutely impossible without action.

Don't be afraid of failure, because if you don't act immediately, you won't even have a chance to fail, and you can't learn from it and start over. Here's an example. You can't just stop when driving' this road is blocked' or' traffic jam'. You know, the temporary traffic jam just means that it is impassable now, and you can reach your destination by another way. For those generals who command big campaigns, whenever they make strategic plans, they will draw up several backup plans at the same time for emergencies. As you may know, every plane with a fixed route has an alternate airport.

Nothing can be achieved without twists and turns. In practice, you will constantly modify your plan in action. You didn't change your original goal, but chose another road, and your destination remained the same.

If someone calls the traffic police before going to school to ask if the street lights between home and school are all green, then you think he is crazy. Everyone knows that a person who wants to wait until all the street lights turn green will never go out. However, on the road of life, there are countless people doing such stupid things.

Life is like a chess game. If you want to kill beautifully, you have to be brave. Of course, you need a few tricks. Excellent chess players all know that "three strokes must win", and life also needs to make a reasonable evaluation of the future. But if you want to count the whole game of chess, you will never move a piece.

Napoleon Hill once told such a story:

"We all know very well how college students prepare their homework. For example, Joe's plan is very good. He is going to stay for one night and concentrate on reading some books that have racked his brains. But how does he live? Please see:

He was going to start reading at 7 o'clock, but he ate too much dinner and wanted to watch TV to amuse himself. He just wanted to watch it for a while, but the program was so wonderful that he had to continue watching it. At this time, an hour passed.

It's eight o'clock. I just want to sit down and read a book for a while, and then call my girlfriend later to talk. It took another 40 minutes (he didn't have to talk all day). It took 20 minutes to get another call. Halfway through the table, I suddenly saw someone playing table tennis, which made his fingers itch for another hour. After the fight, you are sweating all over. Go and wash. Later, I was a little tired and thought I should take a nap. I'm a little hungry after playing ball and taking a shower, so I need to eat some snacks.

The hard night of preparation passed quickly, and I finally opened the book at one o'clock in the middle of the night, but I couldn't stand it any longer and had to surrender and sleep. The next morning, he said to the professor,' I hope you will give me another chance to make up the exam. I'm really trying. I studied until two o'clock in the morning yesterday for this exam!

Joe's practice is very bad because he wastes too much time. I don't know how many people suffer from "over-preparation mania" like Joe, and we can find many examples. Such as salesmen, supervisors, workers, housewives, etc. It took them a long time to get serious. The preparation skills they often use include chatting, drinking coffee, sharpening pencils, reading books and newspapers, handling private affairs, cleaning stationery, watching TV and dozens of other small things.

There is a way to solve this problem. Command yourself:' I'm fine now, I can start right away, and then I'll be finished. I want to spend all my time and energy on business. "

When I graduated from college, the dormitory was withdrawn. Although admitted to graduate school, there is no new dormitory. I want to rent a single room near the National People's Congress in the summer vacation and write a good book. Another student in our class has also been admitted to graduate school. He wants to find a house to live in and prepare for the judicial examination. When he had money, he began to contact the house. I didn't have money, so I tried to make money at once, so I immediately contacted to give a lecture. After half a month's lecture, I thought he had rented a room and sent him a text message asking, "Where do you live?" He said, "I went home." I asked him why. He said that he had asked several students who rented a house outside the school before, saying that the house was not easy to find, the public security outside was not good, and the sanitary conditions were poor. He felt very troublesome and went home. Return to Beijing in the morning and start action in the afternoon. I first searched online, then looked for advertisements on campus, then made phone calls one by one, and then rode my bike to look around the house. At first, there was hardly any information on the internet and in the advertisement column. Later, I rode to several communities and found that renting houses were everywhere. So I chose three better ones this afternoon. The next day I visited them carefully, bargained, moved on the third day, and started writing my book that night.

By September 25th, my book had been finished. Two days later, I met that classmate on campus and asked him how the judicial exam was. He shook his head and said, "When I get home, there are always old classmates coming to see me. I haven't reviewed much. I failed this time and wasted hundreds of registration fees. Let's talk about it next time. "

Liu Chuanzhi, the founder of Lenovo Group, said that one of the secrets of his success is: "Don't make a decision in a hurry, but once you make a decision, you must do it without hesitation and never delay."

When I was in my third year of high school, there was such a small thing:

The girl sitting in front of me is reading a book, and my deskmate and I want to read it. After reading it, she pushed the book back and asked, "Who wants to read it?" I quickly replied: "I want to see it!" And my deskmate has reached out and taken the book away. She smiled and said to me, "Your answer is quick."

Now, I deeply understand what is "the strongest first Mover".

Therefore, if you really decide, it is a waste to say one more word, and you must act immediately. Don't wait for tomorrow, we have no tomorrow.

Second, start by washing the first course.

As the saying goes, "A good beginning is half the battle." I think a bad beginning is half the battle. Because for better or worse, as long as you do it, the rest will be much easier.

A very common example is washing dishes. I'm afraid there are not many middle school students who like washing dishes. Facing a messy table of cups and plates, no one can afford to work. Does Li Lisuo have any way to finish washing the dishes? Yes, you can try:

Pick up a bowl and say to yourself, "I'll wash this bowl today." Then wash it slowly. At this time, you will find yourself motivated to wash another bowl and no longer feel that washing dishes is a hassle. Before you know it, you have washed all the dishes. Moreover, after washing-this is my personal experience, you should have experienced it-I will unconsciously look at what is messy in the kitchen and clean it up again until everything is clean.

If you want to feel the benefits of immediate action, try it immediately after you watch the next meal after this festival. I believe that from now on, you can form the good habit of taking immediate action.

Therefore, the way to achieve lofty goals is to "start with the first course".

A famous writer once described his creative experience like this:

"When I gave up another job and started writing a 250,000-word book, my heart was already unsettled. I almost gave up my pride as a professor, which means I almost don't want to do it. Finally, I forced myself to think only about how to write the next paragraph, not the next page, and certainly not the next chapter. For half a year, I did nothing but write for a while, and the result was actually written. "

"A few years ago, I took a job of writing a radio draft every day, and I have written 2000 articles so far. If I had signed a contract to write 2000 plays, I would have been intimidated by this huge number, or even turned it down. Fortunately, I just wrote one script and then another, so I really wrote so much over time. "

Faced with a thick reference book, you feel that there are many topics and you don't know when you can finish reading it. What needs to be done at this time is not to think about how to finish it, but to pick up the pen and do the first question at once.

If the teacher asks you to recite a long English text, don't be scared by the dense English words. What you should do is to recite the first sentence of the article at once.

If you are afraid of exams, and your hands tremble every time you get a test paper, and you get dizzy when you see so many questions, what you have to do is not to think about what to do if you can't finish writing, but to pick up a pen and start calculating the first multiple-choice question at once.

If you want to preview next semester's math in summer vacation, open your textbook, which is full of strange symbols and figures. What we have to do at this time is to ignore those things and read them carefully from the first page at once.

If you do the above, you will find it easy to finish homework, recite texts, take exams and preview textbooks.

As the saying goes, "haste makes waste". To put it bluntly, it is called: "You can't eat a fat man in one bite." Don't rush to achieve ambitious goals in a short time, it will only make you feel at a loss and do nothing well in the end. As long as you have a general goal and go down step by step, everything will follow.

Third, action will bring unexpected gains.

Immediate action is the most important condition to achieve the goal. But there is another situation, when you are not sure about your goal, you should act immediately instead of sitting at your desk thinking hard.

The goal is not fixed, and the predetermined goal may not be achieved or may not be suitable for you. You just need to set a goal according to the current situation and then act. The result of action is often conducive to making a correct judgment and redefining the goal of struggle.

0 1 Wang Linli, the top liberal arts scholar in Hubei Province, said:

"I don't think the goal is static. Can change with the change of their own strength. It doesn't need to be too high or too low. Just jump up and reach out. After three years in high school, you must have a clear understanding of yourself and adjust your countermeasures at any time according to your study. When I was a freshman, I could only guarantee to go to Wuhan University. When I was a sophomore, I changed to Renmin University. In my senior year, I set my goal at Peking University and fought for it. I like this kind of catching up, to pursue the ideal of being far ahead. In the pursuit, I feel that I am the free master of life. "

"There is a classmate in the dormitory. In high school, it was originally a science experimental class in the school. It was the best class in their school at that time. After two years of science experimental classes, I feel that this is not my interest and goal. In the third year of high school, under great pressure, she resolutely transferred from science to liberal arts in the midst of opposition. It is always easy and happy to learn what you are good at and like. Facts have proved the correctness of her choice. After hard work, she entered Peking University with excellent results in the college entrance examination. This time, she chose the economy without hesitation, because this is her favorite. "

When you set your goals at the beginning, you, Rainbow Linli, may have underestimated your own strength. After a period of hard work, you find that you can impact a better university, so raise your goals appropriately; If you expect too much from yourself at first, you can also lower your goals appropriately, which is normal.

Lu Xun abandoned medicine and went to literature, and his previous medical knowledge was useless. However, the process of studying medicine in Japan contributed a lot to his understanding of the international situation, contact with advanced western ideas, understanding a group of people with lofty ideals, and later becoming a famous writer and thinker in modern history. If he didn't go to Japan to study, he wouldn't become a thinker or a doctor. Sun Yat-sen used to support the reform to improve China and wrote to Li Hongzhang. After his failure, he turned to the bourgeois revolutionary road. After the achievements of the Revolution of 1911 were usurped by Yuan Shikai and warlords, he put forward the "New Three People's Principles" and cooperated with the * * * production party and the Soviet Union. He constantly revised his goals in his actions, and eventually became a great forerunner of the democratic revolution and the first person in modern China.

When you have an ideal, you immediately put it into practice and correct your ideal through practice. This is the greatness of Lu Xun and Dr. Sun Yat-sen. They both gave up the road they chose, but if we can go back and ask them, "Do you regret your original choice?" Their answer is not difficult to imagine.

Social activities are like this, and so are scientists who study natural science theories. An author named castor_v_pollux has a short article in Sina's "Does God Roll Dice-Quantum history of mechanics" series. Com, this paper introduces an experiment in the history of modern science to "prove" a certain theory, but in the end, it is found that the theory is not in line with reality, and finally the theory is completely overthrown, achieving a breakthrough in physics:

"In the history of modern science, there have been many similar unexpected experiments of great significance. Maybe we can start in lavoisier. At that time, it was generally believed that the burning of an object was the result of phlogiston leaving the object. But one day in 1774, lavoisier decided to measure the proportion of this "phlogiston". He weighed a piece of tin with a balance and lit it. After the metal was completely burned to ashes, lavoisier carefully collected each piece of ashes and weighed it again.

As a result, everyone was shocked. According to phlogiston, the ash after burning should be lighter than that before burning. To say the least, even if phlogiston has no weight at all, it should be the same weight. But lavoisier's balance says that ash is heavier than metal before burning, so it is nonsense to measure the weight of phlogiston. However, when lavoisier was surprised, he didn't blame his scales, but cast a skeptical eye on phlogiston, a behemoth. Under his impetus, modern chemistry was finally established in the thunder of the collapse of this system.

At 1882, experimental difficulties began to plague J.W.S Rayleigh, a chemistry professor at Cambridge University. He needs to accurately measure the specific gravity of various gases for a project. However, on the issue of nitrogen, Rayleigh is in trouble. Here's the thing: in order to ensure the accuracy of the results, Rayleigh used two different methods to separate the gas. One is to make nitrogen from ammonia by methods familiar to chemists, and the other is to remove oxygen, hydrogen, water vapor and other gases from ordinary air as much as possible, so that the rest should be pure nitrogen. But Rayleigh was distressed to find that the weight of the two was not consistent, and the latter was two thousandths heavier than the former.

Although it is a small difference, it is intolerable for a rigorous scientist like Rayleigh. In order to eliminate this difference, he tried his best to check almost all the instruments and repeated dozens of experiments, but the difference of two thousandths persisted and became more accurate with each measurement. This obstacle made Riley almost crazy. In all kinds of despair, he wrote to another chemist, William Ramsay, asking for help. The latter pointedly pointed out that this weight difference may be caused by an imperceptible heavy gas mixed in the air. With the joint efforts of the two men, argon (Ar) was finally discovered, which eventually led to the discovery of the whole inert gas family and became a great evidence of the existence of the periodic table of elements.

Another experiment worth mentioning was done by becquerel in 1896. At that time, X-rays had just been discovered, and the origin was not very clear. It was suggested that fluorescent substances irradiated by sunlight can produce X-rays, so becquerel studied them. He chose a uranium oxide as a fluorescent substance and exposed it to the sun. Found that it can really make the negative film in black paper sensitive, so he came to a preliminary conclusion: fluorescent substances irradiated by sunlight can really produce X-rays.

However, just when he wanted to continue his studies, something unexpected happened. It became cloudy and dark clouds covered the sun for several days. Becquerel had to put all his experimental equipment, including negatives and uranium salts, in the safe. However, on the fifth day, the weather still didn't clear up, so becquerel couldn't help it and decided to develop the film. Uranium salt is irradiated by a little light. Anyway, should there be some vague marks on the negative?

However, when he got the photo, becquerel experienced the moment of surprise and joy that every scientist dreamed of. His mind was dizzy: the negative was so thoroughly exposed and the pattern on it was so clear that it even exceeded 100 times in strong sunlight. This is a historic moment. The radioactivity of elements was first discovered, though on a dramatic occasion. Becquerel's surprise, after all, opened the door inside the atom and let people see a brand-new world soon. "

In February 2004, when I was giving a speech in the middle school affiliated to Changsha Normal University, a classmate asked me, "There are many books about learning methods now, which one is more useful?" I told him that in fact, many learning methods have different forms, but the spiritual essence is the same. If you read a lot of books about learning methods and find them all good, but don't know which one is more suitable for you, don't hesitate to apply these methods to your study at once, and then pick out the one with the best effect. Maybe you will find that all the methods are not good, but this kind of attempt is still useful, because it will inspire you to create more effective and suitable learning methods. Although such a breakthrough can't be compared with the epoch-making changes in physics mentioned above, the benefits you get are real, and you have formed the habit of trying. Who can say that the next major breakthrough in physics is beyond your reach?

Fourth, find the state with actions.

Some students often use "bad state" as the reason for being lazy. He picked up a test paper, glanced at two questions, and felt that it didn't seem very good, so he told himself, "I'm not in the state of doing the questions today." It is better to go out and play football for a while, and then do it when I am in a state. "

If so, you may never be in a "state", or "state" always comes when you don't do the problem. When you arrive at the examination room, you will find yourself in a "bad state" almost every time, because you have turned "being out of state" into a habit. The only way to find the "status" is to act immediately.

An ambitious "writer" without works said: "I have many good ideas, but I have never been able to write anything decent. Writing is a very creative job, and it needs inspiration to get up the spirit to write and generate interest and enthusiasm for writing. "

To tell the truth, writing really needs creativity, but what is the secret of another writer's best seller?

"I use' spiritual power'." He said: "I have a lot of things to hand in on time, so I can't wait until I have inspiration." That won't do at all. " You must find ways to improve your spiritual strength. The method is as follows: I will calm down and sit down, pick up a pencil and scribble, write whatever comes to mind and try to relax. My hands will start to move first, and it won't be long before I notice. "

Action itself will bring state, and inaction will only bring fear. The best way to overcome fear is to act.

A saint once said, "Hesitation is the devil's favorite job."

If you want to be "stateless", you just need to wait, delay and dodge.

On one occasion, a paratrooper coach said: "Skydiving itself is really fun, and what makes people uncomfortable is the moment of' waiting for skydiving'. I asked the paratroopers to spend this time' as soon as possible' when they were in place. More than once, someone fainted because he imagined too many' possible things'. If he can't be encouraged to jump a second time, he will never become a paratrooper. The longer the skydiver drags on, the more afraid he is and the less confident he is. "

I have given hundreds of lectures in the past three years, but I still feel nervous before each lecture. The time for the speech has already been set, so I can't start my speech without telling you. So before every speech, I will tell two jokes. The first one is to cheer up the audience, and the second one is to get myself into the state. Once I finish this joke, I will be relaxed and there will be no problem in my next speech.

Are you afraid to answer questions in class? Raise your hand at once, and the fear will be swept away. If you still procrastinate, you will become more and more unwilling to answer. Are you afraid to ask the teacher questions? Pick up a question at once and ask it in the office. You will find it easy. If you can't summon up the courage to ask it now, you may never have the courage to ask it.

In short, let's not say to ourselves, "I'm not in the mood now." Or "I lack confidence in this." These are all self-deceiving stories. The college entrance examination will not be held on the day of your "state". The only thing we can do is to make "being in a state" a habit, which requires learning to find the state with action and self-confidence with action.

Do you want to do something and worry about not doing it well? Then, do it now.

Action can help you get rid of pain and stress.

Almost everyone knows that emotional changes will affect a person's actions. But few people know that the inverse proposition of this proposition is also true: a person's behavior can affect his mood.

William james, a famous American pragmatic philosopher, said: "Action seems to follow the feeling. In fact, actions and feelings coexist, and most of them are controlled by will, which can indirectly control feelings. If you are unhappy, the only way to be happy is to sit up straight and pretend to be happy. "

Dale Carnegie said of James:

"This simple little magic really effective? Try it yourself! With a real smile on your face, relax your shoulders, take a deep breath and sing a song. If you can't sing, whistle. If you can't whistle, hum. Soon, you will understand what william james means-if your behavior exudes happiness, you can't be depressed all the time. "

To prove this, Carnegie told another example he had seen:

"Mr. Ingler can live to this day because he discovered the secret.

Mr. Ingle got scarlet fever ten years ago, but when he recovered, he found that he had nephritis. He visited famous doctors all over the world and tried various treatments, but none of them could be cured. Soon, he got another complication, high blood pressure. He went to see a doctor, who told him that his blood pressure had risen to 2 14. Of course, the situation is critical, and he'd better arrange the funeral first.

He said: "I went home and checked my insurance, and it is still valid." I confessed, and then I fell into depression. I make everyone unhappy. My wife and family are in a gloomy cloud, and I can't help myself. After a week of self-pity, I said to myself: you are a fool! You may not die for a year. Why not make life better in front of you?

I relaxed my shoulders and smiled to make everything look normal. I have to admit that I was faking it at first-but I have been forcing myself to have a happy New Year, and the result is not only beneficial to my family, but also helpful to myself.

First of all, I found that I began to get better-as good as I pretended, things were getting better and better. To this day-many months after my death-I am not only happy, healthy and alive, but also my blood pressure has dropped! One thing I can be sure of is that if I keep the idea of' dying' in my mind, the doctor's prediction will not be wrong. On the contrary, I gave my body a chance to heal itself because my attitude changed. "

In this story, Mr. Ingler, who was seriously ill, decided to "pretend" to be happy in order to make his family happy, but he didn't expect to be really happy. This optimistic mood made his body healthy. Obviously, the key to this change is to "pretend" to be happy.

In the process of our growth, we will inevitably encounter many sad things. We should first face them with something positive and optimistic, and the popular point is: "Relax". But there must be something that can't be taken over. At least for a short time, they can't figure it out. Only those who are completely numb will completely avoid sadness. What should I do about this really incomprehensible sadness? Act immediately. In other words, keep yourself busy and turn your attention to other things. When you finish what you are doing, you will find that the emotions on your back have subsided a lot.

Don't indulge your feelings. Sadness is sometimes a bit like snowballing. The more you let it roll down the hill, the bigger and faster it will roll, and finally you can't stop.

"Work is a good medicine for grief." Dumas wrote in The Count of Monte Cristo. In this novel, prosecutor Villefort immediately began to prepare to recount the murderer after his daughter was killed: "Look at my desk. I have written a lot these two days and nights. I wrote all the documents and a complaint against the murderer Benedetto. Oh, work! Work! Work is my passion, make me happy, make me happy! Work relieves my sadness! "

In The Count of Monte Cristo, Villefort belongs to the villain and is outstanding in ruthlessness, but the truth embodied in this plot is very objective. In fact, Thomas Carlyle, a famous British historian and literary geek in the19th century, once said a very similar sentence:

"Work is a panacea for all the pains in the world."

Work means immediate action. Tsinghua has a saying: "When you are depressed, go running;" When you are happy, go running; When you don't know what to do, go running. Running can refresh you, keep you young forever, and let you know your strength. "

If you feel pain, you shouldn't grieve alone. You can go running, have dinner with your good friends, find a book you usually like to read, or tell your mother that you will do housework today. In short, keep yourself busy and you can overcome your sadness well. Remember, action can control your emotions more than thought-action is a good medicine for sadness.

Finally, regarding immediate action, please remember three sentences:

When you know your goal, take action immediately, because this is the key to achieving it.

When you don't know your goal, act immediately, because it can help you find your goal.

When you feel sad, act immediately, because it can help you get rid of your sadness and get back on your feet.